Faculty Senate: Salary Administration Board Annual Report 2002-2003

Salary Administration Board
Annual Report 2002–2003

For the 2002–2003 academic year, the SAB was charged by the Faculty Senate Executive Committee with the following duties:

The 2001 report of the Faculty Senate Ad Hoc Salary Administration Board (SAB) presented a model for distribution of resources to the faculty salary base. The SAB is charged with:

1. Preparing, as soon as possible, a detailed implementation plan for this model using the funds made available for this purpose during the 2002–03 academic year.
2. Upon approval of the plan, assisting in its execution through support of those groups and individuals with roles in the plan. Potential involvement in the plan could include Faculty Senate, provost, deans, committees, individual faculty members, Office of Institutional Research, Human Resources Department and others.
3. Preparing a report of this process by the end of the 2002–03 academic year.

Campus administration allocated $400,000 for the SAB processes for academic year 2002–2003. During fall 2002, the SAB members developed the first plans for the implementation of the first recommendation of the SAB report from 2001:

Process to Move to CUPA Mean
Faculty salaries should be raised in two iterations that follow the same process.
The process is to take two thirds of the money allotted for that iteration and move salaries toward the CUPA mean by discipline and rank. The other one third of the money is to be used as an equity adjustment to reward career performance at Central Washington University. Equity would be consistent with the Faculty Code section 8.46 based on a combination of the following:

• CUPA mean by discipline and rank
• Years of service in rank
• Qualifications based on academic department and program criteria and recommendations.
• Teaching, scholarship, and service performance based on academic department and program criteria and recommendations.

The two plans developed also included the recommendation that an annual performance review process take place during years when there was no money for a merit process. The performance review process was implemented early winter quarter, 2003. The SAB–designed plans (Salary Market Adjustment Plan (Plan A) [attachment A] and Career Performance/Equity Adjustment Plan (Plan B) [attachment B]) were discussed and approved by vote of the faculty senate at it´s January 22, 2003 meeting.

By means of these plans, during winter and spring quarters 2003, the money was distributed as follows:

*GRAD: funded by Provost; CAH self–funded $939 of college increases (Plan B)

  Plan A (Market\CUPA adjustments)

  Plan B (Career Performance/Equity adjustments)

There were faculty appeals to actions that resulted from both plans. As there was no formally written or known appeals policy, the SAB members reviewed them and ruled in both cases against changing the actions that had been taken as a result of the implementation of Plan A and Plan B. We notified individual faculty members of our opinion and let them know that they could continue their discussion with the Provost or via the grievance process. Members of theSAB clearly felt that while they can look at some procedural considerations – specifically referring to Plan A – they could not re–examine the content behind a decision for Plan B. A more formally defined appeals process will be defined during 2003–2004.

During the spring of 2003, SAB members met to revise and update both plans. We also held a debriefing session with the Career Performance/Equity Review Committees (CPERCs), May 30, 2003. SAB members will use the information from that meeting to help inform and shape the process and guidelines for implementation in 2003–2004.

At the May 28, 2003 Faculty Senate meeting, the revised plans and schedule for all three process (Performance Review Process, Salary Market Adjustment Plan (Plan A), and Career Performance/Equity Adjustment Plan (Plan B) were discussed and approved. The SAB will work with administration and the senate for the implementation of the SAB–designed process for academic year 2003–2004.